Car-icing system.



PATENTED SEPT. 29. 1903.

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Patented September 29, 1903. I

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. WERNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO LINK BELT MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CARI-ICING SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 739,962, dated September 29, 1903.

- Application filed November 28,1902. Serial No. 133.021. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. \VERNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Car-Icing Systems, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for supplying refrigerator-cars with ice, and is illustrated in an arrangement having an ice-supply car mounted on trucks at a sufficient height to pass above a train or a series of trains of cars ranged alongside one another and adapted to charge the abutting ends of the cars at the same time. the drawings is designed toextend'transversely over four trains; but of course I do not wish to be limited to any particular number, as it is evident that the supply-car could be so varied in length as to extend over any desired number of trains.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, -whe'rein Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the ice-sup ply car, showing four trains of refrigeratorcars underneath, the side of the car being partly broken away to disclose the operating mechanism. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a'diagrammatic plan view. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of the ice-supply car with parts omitted. Fig. 5 is aview of one of the movable hoppers. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the lower end of one of the salt-bins. l

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

A is the ice-supply car, supported on the framework A A from the trucks A A which travel on the tracks B B. The supply-car is driven from the motor C and is controlled by a motorman in a cab D, depending from the center of the car. The motor drives the horizontal shaft C through the gears C C which in turn drives the two upright shaft-s E E through the bevel-gears C and E. At the lower end of the shafts E E are the bevelpinions E E meshing with the bevelgears F F on the shafts F F. Secured to the shafts F F are the sprockets F F, which drive the sprockets A on the trucks by means of the chains F F The electric power is carried Thedevice shown in and above the bin G.

to the supply-car by means of the trolleywire R, strung alongside the tracks, and the trolley-pole S at one end of the supply-car.

' In the lower part of the supply-car and extending its full length is a large bin G to carry the supply of ice. The bottom of the bin is divided into a series of hoppers having the outlets G controlled by the valves G vBelow the outlets are a series of movable hoppers H, providedwith the supporting-wheels H, which run on the tracks 11*, said tracks extending across the width of the car. The hoppers H are arranged in groups of four and have the. spouts Hiwith telescoping sections IP, which are held in any position by the counterbalance-weights H The manner of filling the bin G is as follows The supply-car is run alongside an icestorage house I, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, which is equipped with ice-elevators I to elevate the ice cakes to the ice-crushing machines J, located at one end of the supply-car The ice is received on a platform J, associated with the ice-erusherj and projecting through an opening in the end of the car at the same height as the open ings I in the ice-house. The ice is fed into the crushers and discharged at the bottom into a trough K, running the entire length of the car below the crushers'and above the bin. This trough is located in the center of the car and has the chutes K K projecting from both sides at intervals throughout its length. The trough has a chain conveyer K passing around the sprockets K K which carries the crushed ice to each of the chutes'K K successively. Running along both sides of the car are the troughs L L, having suitable conveyers L L to carry salt to the salt-bins M. The salt would first be received in the chutes L at the end of the car from the salt-elevators I in the salt-house 1 which in the present instance is shown adjoining the ice house. The lower ends of the salt-bins are provided with two cooperating valves M and M The outer ends of the valves are pivoted to opposite ends of the lever M which is pivoted to the bin at M and is provided with a handle M The object of this arrangement of valves is to give a measured quantity of salt at each operation of the valves. When it is desired to draw a charge of salt, a bucket would be placed on the platform A directly under the salt-bin and the handle M be lifted, opening the lower valve M and closing the upper valve M, allowing a charge of salt to fall into the bucket. The handle M would then be pulled down, closing the lower valve and opening the upper, to allow the salt to settle down in the lower end of the salt-bin ready to be drawn off. The ice crushers and conveyors are driven by the motor N, located in any convenient position above the large ice-bin. An intermediate shaft P has the gear I meshing with the pinion O on the shaft 0, which is driven from the motor N. The shaft P has the sprocketwheels P P, which drive the sprocket-wheels J J 2 on the shafts of the ice-crushers through the chains J J The conveyer K is driven by the belt K from the pulley P on the shaft P, and on this same shaft P are the pulleys P P, which communicate motion to the saltconveyers L L by means of the belts P P The use and operation of my invention are as follows: The ice-bin and salt-bins of the supply-car would be filled, as above described, and the supply-car would then be run into position above the trains, the width of the supply-car being such that the car overhangs simultaneously the abutting ends of the ears in each train. The operators, of whom there is one for each train, would adjust the movable hoppers II on their tracks H so that the telescoping spouts II when pulled down would enter the scuttle-holes in the roofs of the refrigerator-cars, whereupon the valves G controlling the outlets G in the ice-bin, would be opened and the crushed ice allowed to flow until a sufficient quantity has entered the ice-boxes in the cars. The valves G are then closed and the telescoping ends of the hoppers H are raised. The operators would then take a charge of salt from the salt-bins, as above described, and dash it over the ice in the ice-box of the refrigerator-car and replace the covers on the scuttle-holes. The operation would be repeated at the abutting ends of all the cars in the trains, the operation being similar except when the extreme ends of the first and last cars of the trains are given their supply of ice and salt, when only two spouts out of each group would be used.

I claim- 1. In a ear-icing system the combination of a series of railway-tracks to receive a series of trains of cars, with an icesupply car mounted above and transversely of said tracks, supports for said car so that it may travel along said tracks, and ice-feeding devices associated with said ice-supply car so as to feed ice into the adjacent ends of two cars of each train simultaneously.

2. In a car-icing system the combination of a series of railway-tracks to receive a series of trains of cars, with an ice supply car mounted above and transversely of said tracks, supports for said car so that it may travel along said tracks, and ice crushing and feeding devices associated with said ice-supply car so as to feed the ice into the adjacent ends of two cars of each'train simultaneously.

In a car-icing system, the combination in an ice'supply car of a car-body and an icebin, having ice-crushers associated therewith,

and means for conveying the ice from the icecrushers to the bin.

at. In a car-icin g system, the combination in an ice-supply car of a car-body and an icebin, having a series of hoppers in the lower side, controlled by valves and adapted to discharge into a series of movable hoppers, having telescoping funnels, said funnels adapted to be entered in the ice-box openings in the roofs of refrigeratorcars and discharge the ice therein.

5. In a car-icing system, the combination in an ice-supply car of a car-body, an ice-bin, and a series of salt-bins associated therewith, and means for conveying the salt to the bins, said bins having valve -controlled outlets at their lower ends.

6. In a car-icing system the combination of a series of tracks for supporting trains of cars to be supplied with ice, with a transverse icecar across and above said tracks, means for supporting and carrying said ice-car along the tracks, and ice-supplying and ice-crushing devices to furnish the ice-supply car with ice, and means for controlling the How of such ice to the cars to be supplied.

JOHN A. WERNER.

Vitnesses:

HOMER L. KRAFT, FANNY B. FAY. 1 

